Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-12-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

srn'Vhlle repairing an old log House
hear Dunbar Camp, Fayette County,
Pa, John Robuck found a well-pre-
served oak box, which, when opened,
vas found to contain $1,000 in gold
md silver.
"A man fishing on the Nnchefoone
Greek, in Georgia, got a bite and saw
his cork 60 down like shot. He be-
gan, pulling in, but had to call for help,
md landed turtle weighing zoe
pounds.
"A hive Of bees was found under a
sornice that was being repaired last
week on house in Salem, Mass. and
sfter the insects had been smothered a
tore OF honey amounting to a tub and
half was secured.
Mamma'.Now Berthe, I want
lou to tell me the truth and not 20
sround Robin Hoods barn" BERTHE
y amt been around Mr.. Hoods barn.
t was Mr.. James. How did you
lnowP''
The winds which heretofore have
blown out the lamps in lighthouses are
10 be utilized to keep them burning.
An enormous windmill will be put up
N the cliff of st. Adresse, near Havre,
% furnish power to electric accumula.
0rs, for use in lighthouses or elsewhere.
Three girls of Aroostook, Me-,
walked from Ashland to Portage lake,
lowed across the lake, ate their dinner
ind returned to Ashland in the after.
toon, having travelled eighteen miles.
The same girls can travel on snow
hoes. ride horses, milk, teach school
md play the piano.
"A st. Louis voodoo doctor got q
tlm OF money from a colored woman,
promising to cure her sick child. He
vent for medicine but did not return.
The woman hunted him up and held a
hickory club over his head until she
GOULD send for policeman and secure
his arrest.
"A cat belonging to 9 Scranton, Pa,
nan is extravagantly fond of organ
md guitar music, but if her master
play on the violin she will dart at him
tsif seized with a fit, scratch him
feiously and squat as though in great
pain. AS soon as he lays the violin
Town she will trot up to him, rub ner
lead and back lovingly against his
ankles and purr contentedly.
The following is list Of the heav.
bst hammers in Europe from an his.
orieal point of view: Fl. Krupp,
Essen, 1868, forty tons; Terni Works.
italy, 1873. fifty tons; Creusot, France,
1887, eighty tons; Cockerill, Belgium,
1885, one hundred tons; Fl. Krupp,
Gsasn, 1886, one hundred and fifty tons.
Tho last is now the heaviest steam
hammer in the world.
The carrying capacity of railway
'as of ten tons has been figured on by
pmebody, who gives this rs result:
Wheat, $40 bushels; corn, 400 bushels;
potatoes, 4S0 bushels; apples, $40 bush
lis; oats, $50 bushels; lumber, 5000
est; butter, 10000 pounds; -four, 90
barrels; whisky, go barrels; wood, six
lords; cattle, 10 to 20 head; hogs, so to
10 head, and sheep, 80 to 100.
AT a funeral the other day at
colona, Ia, it was noticed that the
pee of the dead was covered with per-
piration, and, although wiped away
y the undertaken. large drops Of
Moisture soon gathered again. The
body was buried, however, and now
hany residents of the town assert tn cir
kslisf that the supposed dead man was
turied alive.
Omaha Teacher-'Did you all give
.ttention to the story of David and Co.
fah" Class-"Yes'm. y s.Now, why
lid that contest take placep'' Little
Eirl-"So the big armies wouldn't have
b fight and SO many get killed. ''Cor-
ect. Now, why was it that youth
ike David was able to conquer giant
Ike Goliahp" Little boy (recently
ROM Boston)-"'Cause they didn't
light 'cordin' to Queensberry rules
Omaha World.
"A young man named Doring, who
vas shot at West Troy, N. Y, a few
lays ago, visited church in Troy re-
:ently and there heard friend sing a
olo, of which he thought so well that
It the close of the services he said to
his friend in jest: Il wish you would
ing solo at my funeral" II will, y
aid the friend. At the funeral of Mr..
Boring the musical service comprised
single solo. 1t was sung by the
tiend, who thus redeemed his promise.
Boring was shot by a policeman, who
nistook him for robber.
There is in Griffin, Ca, small.
ht child of remarkable gravity Of de.
neanor and of an investigating turn 81
mind. The other day he climbed to the
ow-catcher of a locomotive, and then,
when it was in motion, fell off. With
'are presence of mind he lay perfectly
till until the entire train had passed
,ver him. The experience pleased
lin, and the next day he went down to
he depot, and, unseen by the engineer,
ny down on the track and waited
here until the train passed over him.
He is now pining in TIE seclusion of the
parental backy ard.
LIN collection of statistics on long
witty recently published in the Boston,
globe, it appears that by far the greater
number of the old people Of New En-
gland are farmers. Indeed they number
Almost as many as all other men on the
Est. Those named are eighty years old
,r more, and the number Of farmers
who have attained this advanced age
B 461, while the carpenters who com.